Vision: Imagine if only one percent of students become social entrepreneurs, this world will be a better place for all. Action: Giadorou-Koch works with public and private schools, supporting educators with activities that inspire students to create social enterprises or become changemakers. Her action is based on the documentary whocaresthefilm.com. www.Ashoka.org
Vision: Generosity unleashed: How giving and investing together can unleash capital for global challenges. Action: Leads a digital donation platform, having driven more than US$1.25 billion to more than 100,000 charities. He now aims to distribute US$10 billion and unleash generosity on a massive scale. His goal is increasing money for good. His organization is an innovative B-Corp that joins non- profit and private equity. www.NetworkForGood.com
Vision: A world where investors ask themselves a different question: not “What is the risk and return?”, but “What is the risk, return and impact?” Action: Created the world’s first social investment financial institution. They established a unique organization with a new way of investing – seeking both a social impact and financial return. www.BigSocietyCapital.com
Vision: To help people understand their potential, develop an identity, and recognize the value of knowledge and how it applies to their lives each day. Action: Graham teaches identity development and leadership to people all over the world – from youth to executives. He has written 11 books to share these messages. Graham wants to transform people from followers to leaders. www.StedmanGraham.com
Vision: Raising funds through online crowdfunding to make ideas that matter happen. Action: Made it easy to take an idea, start a campaign and get it funded. A way for people all over the world to join forces to make worthy ideas happen. Bringing dreams to life by allowing people to make their case directly to the public, while mitigating market risk and working alongside traditional finance routes. www.Indiegogo.com
Vision: Using the power of markets and entrepreneurship to build peace and reconciliation in the aftermath of conflict. Action: Building peace involved promoting employment and higher profitability in countries with conflict. By founding luxury fashion brand Maiyet, he pioneered a new luxury by celebrating rare and artisanal skills from unexpected places. www.Maiyet.com
Vision: To channel the energy of her generation for educational equality. Action: Recruited 11,000 Teach For America corps members—all outstanding college graduates and professionals of all academic disciplines— for a two-year teaching commitment in the nation’s highest- need urban and rural regions www.TeachForAll.org
Vision: Long-term business sustainability and a deeper understanding of true profits are key. Action: Realizing that farming practices around the world basically require the same skills, regardless of the produce, Overton combined salmon farming practice in Scotland with plant oil farming in Rwanda to help rural African farmers become self-sufficient and earn more than the national average income. www.Aquascot.com
Vision: To galvanize everyone to use their talents and insights to improve the world as part of their daily lives. Action: Coauthored the book A Path Appears, showing that ordinary people can influence change, spread opportunity and improve society. WuDunn believes the markets are the most effective way to offer opportunity. Compassion is another. www.APathAppears.org
Vision: A fairer world where we would work towards both growing the cake and sharing it more equitably. Action: Dedicates his business to values that have been in place for 50 years: Doing good is good business; consumer sovereignty; business efficiency. The company gives seven percent net profit annually to various projects, charities and their foundations. www.PicknPay.co.za
